Shanghai University successfully had one team of three students from SILC business school to enter the finals of the 2023 Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance (YICGG 2023) and won three awards in total.

7月16日，上海大学悉尼工商学院三位留学生组队成功入围2023荣昶杯青年全球治理创新设计大赛决赛，并喜获三项大奖。

Organized by Fudan University School of International Relations and Public Affairs and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the YICGG has been aimed at promoting the world's youth to gather strength and resonate in solving global governance issues over the past 16 years. This year’s theme was biodiversity. Each applicant was divided into random teams for the main proposal and debate segments. In this competition, 64 contestants from more than two dozen countries entered the finals, out of hundreds of initial applicants. This team consisted of Christopher Vivas, Wijdane Jeddou, and Zephyr Aptekar (from left to right in below picture).

荣昶杯青年全球治理创新设计大赛由复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院和联合国开发计划署主办，16年来旨在推动世界青年在解决应对全球治理问题上聚力共鸣。今年的主题是生物多样性。在这次比赛中，来自二十多个国家的64名选手从数百名最初的申请者中突围而出进入决赛。每个申请人被随机分成几个小组，分别进行主要的提案和辩论环节。我院团队共由Christopher Vivas, Wijdane Jeddou和Zephyr Aptekar三位同学组成。

The competition consisted of several events: the public speaking competition “ignite talk”, the debate “sparkling debate”, a field work segment, the “We Youth Common Agenda” which is a youth agenda sent to the UNDP, and a proposal which is a pitch by each world team for a specific project.

比赛由几个竞赛单元组成:公开演讲比赛“激情演讲”、辩论比赛“燃情辩论”、田野调查、发给联合国开发计划署的青年议程“我们共同的未来议程”，以及由每个团队为一个具体项目提出的提案“世界团队方案展示”等。

There were 5 awards for the various competitive sections. As for the debate section, all youths are redivided into different groups. Zephyr Aptekar (second from right in below picture), majoring in International Economics and Trade, a second year student from SILC, Shanghai University lead a team with students including: a Vietnamese from The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, a Montenegrin international student in University of Science and Technology of China, and a Romanian in Babeș-Bolyai University. They were randomly assigned to argue against the motion: biotechnology does more good than harm in species protection. In doing so, they won the “Excellent Team Award”.

各竞赛单元共设5个奖项。辩论环节，学生们重新分组。上海大学悉尼工商学院国际经济与贸易专业二年级学生Zephyr Aptekar(下图右二)作为队长，带领团队成员:越南外交学院的越南籍学生、中国科技大学的黑山籍留学生和巴比什-博雅依大学的罗马尼亚籍学生，被随机分配为“生物技术在物种保护方面利大于弊”议题的反方。经过激烈的辩论，最终获得了“优秀团队奖”。

Another debate was organized around the topic of whether humans protect animals for their own sake or that of animals. Of all debaters in both topics and four teams, Zephyr Aptekar (right in below picture) won the individual “Best Debater Award”.

另一场辩论围绕着“人类保护动物是为了他们自己还是为了动物”这个话题展开。在所有的辩手中，Zephyr Aptekar(下图右)获得了个人“最佳辩手奖”。

Wijdane Jeddou (third from the left in below picture), majoring in International Economics and Trade, a second year student also from SILC, Shanghai University, lead her World team 4 to win the “Most Valuable Project”. Her group included a Chinese PhD student in Cambridge, a Hungarian in NTU (Singapore), a Greek in University of Cyprus, a Nepali in Kathmandu University, a Chinese student in Fudan, and a Laotian in Dali University. Her team proposed an app akin to Pokémon go, which could allow for data collection for biodiversity research, while simultaneously bolstering awareness of the benefits and beauty of biodiversity.

同为上海大学悉尼工商学院国际经济与贸易专业二年级学生Wijdane Jeddou(下图左三)带领“世界4队”获得“最有价值项目”奖。她的团队包括剑桥大学的一名中国博士生、新加坡南洋理工大学的一名匈牙利人、塞浦路斯大学的一名希腊人、加德满都大学的一名尼泊尔人、复旦大学的一名中国学生和大理大学的一名老挝人。她的团队提出了一个类似于Pokémon go的应用程序，可以为生物多样性研究收集数据，同时提高人们对生物多样性的好处和美丽的认识。

Overall, the only universities to receive three total awards were Shanghai University and Cambridge university, with Shanghai University being the only university to receive three different awards in YICGG2023.

Shanghai University contestants were also interviewed and/or quoted in several newspapers throughout the competition. These include China Daily, Shanghai Daily, Shanghai Observer, and Fudan’s news portal.

本次比赛中，唯一获得三个奖项的大学是上海大学和剑桥大学。上海大学是唯一一所同时获得三个不同奖项的大学。

比赛过程中，上海大学的选手们还接受了《中国日报》、《上海日报》、《上海观察报》和复旦大学新闻门户网站等媒体的采访或引用。